The Perspectives on Performance section provides a convenient way to stay up-to-date on the latest performance management information and resources:
- Library of Windows performance management articles and presentations
- Presentations from our annual User Group meetings at CMG
- Resources and links
Library of Windows Performance Management Articles and Presentations
- The Challenge of Performance Management in the Virtual Data Center, Part II (Memory Management)by Mark B. Friedman (pdf)
- The Reality of Virtualization for Windows Servers by Mark B. Friedman (pdf)
- Mainstream NUMA and the TCPIP stack by Mark B. Friedman (pdf)
- Measuring Processor Utilization in Windows Applications by Mark B. Friedman (pdf)
- Managing 2000+ Windows/NT Servers in a Wan/LAN Environment (ppt)
- Managing a Large Number of Servers by Exception (pdf)
- Exploiting Web Publishing Technology To Enhance Performance Reporting (ppt)
- Building an MXG PDB from NTSMF Data (ppt)
- Virtual memory constraints in 32-bit Windows: an Update (pdf)
- Virtual memory constraints in 32-bit Windows: an Update (ppt)
- A simplified approach to Windows disk tuning (pdf)
- Virtual memory constraints in 32-bit Windows (pdf)
- The performance of web services applications in Windows 2000 (pdf)
- An introduction to SAN capacity planning (pdf)
- Multiprocessor scalability in Windows 2000 (pdf)
- Windows NT page replacement policies (pdf)
- Optimizing the performance of Wintel applications (pdf)
Demand Tech User Group Meeting Presentations
CMG2005
- “Virtual machine performance and capacity planning: an update,” by Phil Henninge, Senior Developer, Demand Technology Software (ppt)
- “New performance measurements in SQL Server 2005,” by Jeff Schwartz, Unisys (ppt)
- “Tales from the Lab: Application stress testing best practices,” by Ellen Friedman, SRM Associates (ppt)
CMG2004
- Introduction,” by Mark Friedman, President, Demand Technology Software (ppt)
- “Capacity planning for virtual machines,” by Phil Henninge, Senior Developer, Demand Technology Software (ppt)
- “SQL Server performance and optimization,” by Jeff Schwartz, Unisys (ppt)
- “Resistance is futile: the Intel x86 Server Platform,” by Mike Salsburg, Unisys (ppt)
CMG2003
- “A Primer on Windows Server 2003,” by Mark Friedman, VP and GM, Demand Technology Software (ppt)
- “A Longhorn Preview,” by Stets Newcomb, Director, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)
CMG2002
- “Introduction,” by Mark Friedman, VP, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)
- “Fun with .Net,” by Dr. Bernie Domanski, CUNY (ppt)
- “The Thoroughly Modern Mainframe,” by Dr. Michael Salsburg, Director of Performance, Unisys (ppt)
- “Consolidated Chargeback for a Consolidated World,” Sid Finehirsh, President, The CMX Group (ppt)
- “AppMetrics – Monitoring for COM+ Components,” Scott Matsumoto, CTO, Xtremesoft (ppt)
- “Effective Strategies for SAN Performance Monitoring,” David Signori, InRange Technologies (ppt)
- “VIA and InfiniBand: Interconnects for High-Performance Computing,” by Dr. Odysseas Pentakalos, SysNet International (ppt)
- “Finding Memory Leaks with NTSMF,” by Mark Friedman, VP, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)
CMG2000
- “Internet Influence on Server Evolution,” John Baudrexl, Technology and Research Labs, Intel Corporation. (ppt)
- “Publishing your PDB under Windows,” Jim Quigley, Consolidated Edison. (ppt)
- “New Approaches to Tracking Web Site Performance,” Dr. Jim Bouhana, Performance Engineering, Inc. (ppt)
- “Windows NT/2000 Performance and Capacity Key Metrics,” Jerry Rosenberg, SRM Associates. (ppt)
- “Windows 2000 performance and tuning: an Update,” by Mark Friedman, VP, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)
- “Measurement of Web End-to-End Response Time,” Mike Tsykin, Systems Engineering Research Center, Fujitsu Australia Limited (ppt)
- “NTSMF Web-Based Reporting Techniques,” Jim Quigley, Consolidated Edison. [download presentation | download WMI sample script code]
CMG2001
- “Performance Sentry Development status report,” by Stets Newcomb, Director, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)
- “Controlling all your NT systems from a single report,” by Mark Cohen, DemandTech Italia. [download presentation | download paper]
- “Windows XP performance and tuning: an Update,” by Mark Friedman, VP, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)
- “NTSMF goes Simalytic,” Dr. Tim Norton, Chief Scientist, Simalytic Solutions. (ppt)
- “Security considerations for storage networking,” Randy Kerns, Evaluator Group (ppt)
- “Simplifying & Optimizing The SAN Environment: Virtualization Performance Measurements,” Nick Tabellion, Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu Softek (ppt)
- “Complete Event Log Viewing, Monitoring and Management,” EngageNT. (ppt)
- “hIOmon Overview,” Tom West, Founder, HyperIO, LLC. (ppt)
Resources and Links
- Windows freeware from www.sysinternals.com
- Search MSDN
- Microsoft Windows XP customer support
- ExtremeTech: New in Windows XP
- IBM Redbook on Windows 2000 performance
- Time synchronization in Windows 2000
- Free Open Source Iometer disk benchmarking utility
- hIOmon disk I/O trace utility
- Windows 2000 & .Net Magazine
- Paul Thurrat’s supersite
- Windows Script Host
- WSH Bazaar
- Newsletter and tools from Sunbelt Software
- IS Decisions: Windows 2000 utilities
- Windows 2000 utilities from FileBasket
